Quote by Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. - Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn

Other quotes by Louis Kahn

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. – Louis Kahn

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architecture
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. – Louis Kahn

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architecture
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. – Arthur Erickson

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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but thats what I studied in college. Thats what I always wanted to do. – Parker Stevenson

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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. – Stephen Gardiner

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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. – Richard Rogers

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